This will be the sixth year in a row Borscht shorts represent Miami at Sundance, and will bring the total of our films played there to 10.

From the initial inspiration and help making the films, to showing up by the thousands when the rough cuts are screened at the Borscht Film Festival...it’s truly a collaborative effort, and none of this happens without the love from Miami, our volunteers, the support from the local industry, the Knight Foundation, and all the people who read these silly emails.

When we started this quixotic project with a dumb name years ago, we never dreamt that we would send shorts to Sundance for six years in a row to represent Miami, much less that this tiny community would represent 10% of American short-form filmmaking at this festival. We are humbled and grateful that the Sundance programmers deem the projects worthy of this platform.

So, thank you all and congrats!

The shorts are:

Dolfun by Sebastian SilvaA love story becomes an existential crisis when Silva fulfills his lifelong dream of swimming with a dolphin.

Glove by Alexa Haas and Bernardo BrittoAfter accidentally being unclipped from a spacecraft, an astronaut’s glove travels to the edge of the universe.
[Bernardo is also premiering his feature Jacqueline (Argentine) at the festival, which was partially shot in Miami!]

Boniato by Diego Meza-Valdes, Andres Meza-Valdes, and Eric MainadeA migrant worker who is illegally in the U.S. decides it’s time to move on from picking crops and find a better job. Little does she know insidious supernatural forces have a different plan for her.(watch trailer here)

Swimming in Your Skin Again by Terence Nance which you can watch in its entirety today on Nowness!A film about motherhood, banality, Miami, the water, the divine feminine and how to sing in church in a way that calls forth your own adulthood.